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Brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher, co-leaders of reunited \u201990s rock greats Oasis<\/a>, are not properly from Ireland \u2014 the lads were born and raised in Manchester, England, of course \u2014 but it\u2019s hard to imagine them getting a warmer hometown greeting anywhere else than they received in Dublin on Saturday (Aug. 16).<\/p>\n Oasis fever simply consumed Ireland\u2019s capital city this week in anticipation of the Gallaghers\u2019 (whose parents, Peggy and Thomas, are both Irish) arrival for their first gig on the Emerald Isle since 2009. On Saturday, the roads to Gaelic sports stadium Croke Park were lined with pubs offering tribute bands, trivia contests and semi-official fan experiences, as devotees in Oasis shirts (some of which just offered if-you-know-you-know references like \u201csunshyyiiiiine\u201d in the style of the band\u2019s iconic boxed logo) and bucket hats swarmed the surroundings.<\/p>\n More from Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n Such merch was peddled both at the band\u2019s official pop-up store on St Stephen\u2019s Green and at various less-officially sanctioned stands across the city, as well as by enterprising locals wandering the streets with stacks of bucket hats for sale. Even department stores offered in-store performers delivering live acoustic renderings of \u201cLive Forever\u201d and \u201cCast No Shadow\u201d as their shopping soundtrack. The ultimate feeling was a cross between a World Cup host city and a Disney theme park, an Oasis-tinted \u201cDrinking All Around the World\u201d Epcot experience.<\/p>\n All involved headed to Croke Park in the evening for the first of the band\u2019s two shows this weekend, an event that seemed impossible for most of the 15 years following the group\u2019s split (and not even a totally sure thing once the reunion dates were actually announced, given the Gallagher brothers\u2019 history of combustion<\/a>). After warmup sets from Britpop-era contemporaries Cast and former Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft \u2014 whose set-closing performance of signature hit \u201cBitter Sweet Symphony\u201d demonstrated it as one of the period\u2019s few anthems of enduring resonance and singalong potency on par with Oasis\u2019 greatest hits \u2014 the band was introduced by Irish folk ballad \u201cThe Auld Triangle,\u201d which has been turned into a football chant in recent years, and then its own \u201cFuckin\u2019 in the Bushes,\u201d long used as the band\u2019s ring entrance music.<\/p>\n Oasis offered few surprises in its crowd-pleasing, hit-heavy 23-song set, which the band has reprised essentially without deviation since kicking off the Live \u201925 tour in Wales in July. The set\u2019s most surprising moment might be the legendarily quarrelsome brothers taking the stage hand-in-hand, arms raised in triumph, as they\u2019ve done throughout the tour. On Saturday night, the gesture encapsulated what a celebratory victory lap the trek has been \u2014 both as validation of the band\u2019s singular legacy, and as proof that the Gallaghers could avoid their trademark tumult long enough to be able to actually enjoy it \u2014 and it felt particularly resonant in front of the heroes\u2019 welcome afforded the brothers by their quasi-countrymen. (Liam later dedicated the band\u2019s performance of \u201cRoll With It\u201d to the brothers\u2019 Charlestown, County Mayo hometown, though not before chastising the crowd for collectively overstating its connection to the area: \u201cThere\u2019s only about five people who actually<\/em> live there.\u201d)<\/p>\n In any event, unexpectedness has never been the name of the game with the brothers Gallagher, who rose to legend status in the mid-\u201990s by synthesizing the prior 30 years of U.K. rock history into instantly accessible, classic-sounding rave-ups and ballads that soon became era-defining youth culture hymns. Three decades later, Oasis obviously offers a Schedule II narcotic-grade nostalgia rush for the now-middle-aged fans who\u2019ve stuck around since the band\u2019s heyday, but also a catalog of culturally persistent classics whose strength has delivered them to the next generation, with plenty of parent-and-child combos visible in the audience on Saturday, all equally mad for it. It\u2019s that rare combination of timeliness and timelessness that allows a band to still fill stadiums 30 years after its commercial peak.<\/p>\n Which isn\u2019t to say that Oasis didn\u2019t stay popular well into the 21st century \u2014 in the U.K., four of its eight No. 1 hits on the Official Charts came in the 2000s. But, tellingly, the live-curated version of the band\u2019s greatest hits only features one song from after its \u201990s golden age: 2002\u2019s \u201cLittle by Little.\u201d Otherwise, the setlist kept mostly to the Britpop icons\u2019 now-canonized first two albums, 1994\u2019s Definitely Maybe<\/em> and 1995\u2019s (What\u2019s the Story) Morning Glory?<\/em> Polarizing third album Be Here Now<\/em> was also honored with a pair of representatives \u2014 including a \u201cStand by Me\u201d dedicated to the lads\u2019 mum Peggy, in attendance \u2014\u00a0but far greater stage time was afforded to the band\u2019s early B-sides,\u00a0ultimately collected for American audiences on 1998\u2019s The Masterplan<\/em>, with five tracks total.<\/p>\n If there were any later-period Oasis fans miffed at the era-unbalanced setlist, they were certainly little drowned out on Saturday night by the tens of thousands of supporters shouting along to the prime cuts, delivered with the same hurricane wallop that they were 30 years earlier, with no evident rust at all on the band\u2019s part. It\u2019s indicative of just what a high level the Gallaghers were producing at from the jump that it\u2019s become near-impossible to delineate between the hit singles and the deep cuts in their catalog: \u201cRock \u2018n\u2019 Roll Star,\u201d which closed the pre-encore part of the set, was never even a single, but it was still met with a full-stadium singalong to its self-fulfilling prophecies of fantastically realized pre-fame dreams.<\/p>\n Still: What a flex to be able to hold \u201cDon\u2019t Look Back in Anger,\u201d \u201cWonderwall\u201d and \u201cChampagne Supernova\u201d for your three final songs. The band\u2019s three biggest hits \u2014 at least in the U.S., where Oasis\u2019 1996 Morning Glory <\/em>run<\/a> is the primary reason it\u2019s able to play stadiums here too, as it will be in a couple weeks \u2014 closed out the show in spectacular fashion, Noel not even needing to sing the first chorus on \u201cAnger\u201d as the crowd of 82,000 played co-frontpeople. In its first run, Oasis often ended setlists with a cover \u2014 the band\u2019s most recent Irish gig before this weekend, at the 2009 Slane festival, closed with its rendition of The Beatles\u2019 \u201cI Am the Walrus\u201d \u2014 but the Gallaghers don\u2019t need to honor their classic rock idols so explicitly anymore; they unquestionably are now such heroes themselves.<\/p>\n \u201cNice one for putting up with us over the years; it must be hard work,\u201d Liam thanked the fans before the glorious final \u201cSupernova.\u201d Not wrong for much of the last three decades \u2014 but Saturday night\u2019s gig, and all the joyous revelry surrounding it, showed why the Live \u201925 Tour has been payoff enough for none of them to look back in anger at any of it.<\/p>\n Best of Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Billboard’s Newsletter<\/a>. 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